Airborne Telescope

[astroron (Ron)]

The NASA airborne infrared telescope is nearly ready to go into operation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8638566.stm

[Baddad (Marty)]

Hi Ron,

Wow, now I know what I want for Christmas.

Cheers Marty

[JimmyH155]

I Read about it on BBC News site. Fabulous stuff. What I want to know, is how can they keep the thing pointing EXACTLY at what they are looking at when they are doing 700 klm/hr through wind and atmosphere???
All of us down here on terra firma have great difficulty aligning our measly scopes, yet in a moving 747 ----HOW????
Anybody explain?????

[Ric]

A very interesting article Ron

I was actually having the same thoughts as Jimmy, I suppose with todays technology NASA will have that all worked out with stabilisers, balancers and the like.

Cheers

[astroron (Ron)]

I have not gone through this site, but you may ?find the information here
http://www.sofia.usra.edu/